Polanski

[threeplusfire]

The Polanski story enrages me. If Polanski had murdered someone, run down a kid in a drunk driving incident, stolen millions of dollars from a bunch of investors, burned down a church - would anyone be asking if this extradition was necessary? Yes, It's been decades. Yes, Polanski has made some incredible art and is famous. That doesn't change the fact that he drugged and raped a child, and skipped the country to avoid serving his sentence. That's pretty damned reprehensible. Thinking he should get a pass because he's managed to elude being extradited is even more shitty.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

So if more people loved Gacy's clown paintings, would we let him off the hook? Gack.

Clearly he must have been up to Great Art when he decided to put his penis everywhere.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

"So if more people loved Gacy's clown paintings, would we let him off the hook?"

Or speculating as to which of his victims were virgins and which weren't?

"Clearly he must have been up to Great Art when he decided to put his penis everywhere."

I have a distinct childhood memory of seeing him interviewed on the Today show, I think some time after The Incident, literally giggling as he confided to Jane Pauley or whoever it was, "I just, you know, I just really like zee young girls." I was only eight or nine at the time but I was well creeped out even not knowing then just what pedophilia exactly was.